Category: 3. Middle East

The US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz says striking Iran was necessary to protect American allies, prevent proxy militias, and to ensure that Tehran can never “threaten the world with a nuclear weapon.”

US President Donald Trump says Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes. Israeli officials cite “growing signs” he’s dead. Iranian state media deny the claim, saying Khamenei remains in…

The United States and Israel have attacked Iran, and Tehran has retaliated, firing missiles at Israeli targets and US assets in the region.

The attacks come…

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is “dead,” Anadolu reports.

“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump said in a post on his social…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday called for restraint to avoid any nuclear safety risks in the Middle East as tensions escalate after the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran, Anadolu…

Israeli artillery fire killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded another teenager east of Gaza City on Saturday, marking a fresh breach of the ceasefire in the enclave, Anadolu reports.

Medical sources told…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Saturday said that US President Donald Trump “made a mistake” when he launched joint attacks on Iran alongside Israel that have prompted sweeping Iranian retaliation, Anadolu…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday condemned the “unprovoked armed attack” on Iran by the US and Israel, a ministry statement said, Anadolu reprots.

In a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister…

The UK should resist being drawn into a conflict in the Middle East unless it is directly attacked, said Emily Thornberry, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Israel…